Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1887-01-22
WASHINGTON OITY.
rolonged applause.II

WASHINGTON CRY, Jan. IL, 1887.
The weeks work in congress can be
easily summarized, as the senate was
in session only three days and the house
four. Beside a good deal of other
private legislation the senate pensioned
the widow of Gener.i Log.n 1t $4,000
q year, secretly din sed ne Mexican
reciprocity treaty, uu: .,ated the I'M
portant pending bill interstate COM
merce; the house passed three OF the
regular appropriation bills, several
dozen private pension bills, and dis
cussed bills on the public buildings and
naval reorganization. But what should
be emphasized in the work of demo-
cratic house Is the passage, without
opposition, and without any provision
for confederate soldiers, of pension
bill for the current year appropriating
over S76, ZOO, 600. This amount fs near
ly as much as we're the entire expenses
OF the government before the war, and
1t ought to put the republican ranters
of the las. presidential campaign to the
blush, if anything could. Democratic
close-fsiedness. indeed. Wherein does
it consist
/ 1t is still doubtful who will get Gen.
Logan's place, but Pennsylvania sends
Mr. Quay, we'll known boss and
in nrigaer, instead Of Mr.. Mitchell; and
Minnesota sends Ex-Governor Davis,
tariff reiormer, writer Of book on
Shakespeare, and so-called orator in
place Of Mr.. Mcmillan.
(; When the house took up the bill f0f
the reorganization OF tho navy, Mr..
Golf. of West Virginia, who was secre
tary Of the navy for few weeks under
MIR. Hayes, entered upon a lengthy
criticism of the bill, and charged the
lack OF q navy to the democratic party.
! Representative Buck thought 1t strange
that after republican secretaries OF the
navy had tor years recommended this
, same kind of legislation, 1t should now
be opposed because democratic SEQ
retary had recommended it. Mr..
Boutelle, of Maine, who is one Of the
narrowest partisans on the republican
side, denied that Mr.. Goff or himself
had changed front in regard to this
matter But Mr.. Buck did not waver.
Said he: "You are opposed to 1t to-
. day; you were opposed to it yesterday
you will be opposed to it Tomorrow.
and everlastingly opposed to 1t as long
as a democratic secretary is in power"
AS to the present condition Of democ
racy and what il is doing, Gen. Black,
,, commissioner of pensions, gives q pic
tnre iu recent letter to Allan q.
Thurman, which is calculated to rejoice
the heart OF every one to whom success
3 Ia dear Said he: "a triumphant de-
: mocracy administers the affairs of the
3 republic. Quietly but positively the
3 reforms that have long been demanded
: by the people, so tar as the admins
Q trative branch of the government is
! concerned, are in vigorous effect.
Economy and law are the standards of
r official action. Partisanship does not
! throw its sword into the scales of JUS
r tice. Submission to assessments by
r public officials for partisan purposes Is
r not condition of public service. Con-
tracts are not let to the highest partisan
i bidder and the public lands are safe
9 within the pale of the statutes" ("
e What more could be said In behalf of
b the great party which has brought
1 about these things in the brief space of
!, TWENTY-FIVE months?